A Bigger Message by Martin Gayford

A Bigger Message by Martin Gayford

This new edition includes a revised introduction and five new chapters which cover Hockney's production since 2011, including preparations for the Bigger Picture exhibition held at the Royal Academy in 2012 and the making of Hockney's iPad drawings and plans for the show. A difficult period followed the exhibition's huge success, marked first by a stroke, which left Hockney unable to speak for a long period, followed by the vandalism of the artist's Totem tree-trunk, and the tragic suicide of his assistant shortly thereafter. Escaping the gloom, in spring 2013 Hockney moved back to L.A. A few months later, Martin Gayford visited Hockney in the L.A. studio, where the fully-recovered artist was hard at work on his Comedie humaine, a series of full-length portraits painted in the studio The conversations between Hockney and Gayford are punctuated by surprising and revealing observations on other artists--Van Gogh, Vermeer, and Picasso among them--and enlivened by shrewd insights into the contrasting social and physical landscapes of Yorkshire, Hockney's birthplace, and California.

'A remarkable picture of Britain’s greatest living artist' - Daily Telegraph
'Elegantly and simply written' - Observer
'A rewarding book that turns out to be far more than simply the story of how and why Hockney made his most recent picturesIt offers a series of snappy essays on the complicated act of looking' - Times Literary Supplement

Martin Gayford is a writer and art critic. His books include Spring Cannot be Cancelled and A History of Pictures, both with David Hockney; Man with a Blue Scarf (in which he recounts the experience of being painted by Freud); Modernists and Mavericks; Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now, with Antony Gormley; Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud, 1939–1954, with David Dawson; Venice: City of Pictures; and How Painting Happens (and why it matters), all published by Thames & Hudson.

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ISBN 13	9780500298350
ISBN 10	0500298351
Title	A Bigger Message
Author	Martin Gayford
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Thames & Hudson Ltd
Year published	2025-04-03
Number of pages	304
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